Stable isotopic analysis of human and faunal remains from the Incipient Chulmun (Neolithic) shell midden site of Ando Island,Korea |
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Authors: | Kyungcheol Choy Deogim An Michael P Richards |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;2. Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA;3. Department of Conservation for Cultural Heritage, Hanseo University, 360 Daegokri, Haemimyun, Seosan 356-706, South Korea;4. Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada |
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Abstract: | We analyzed stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of human and animal remains from the Ando shell midden, South Korea. The Ando site is a rare Incipient Chulmun (Neolithic) site (ca. 6000–5000 BC), which contains well-preserved human and animal bones in shell mounds. The stable isotope results for humans (average δ13C = −13.5 ± 0.5‰ and δ15N = 15.2 ± 0.5‰) indicate that Ando people in the Incipient Chulmun period strongly depended on marine resources. There were no isotopic differences between humans of different sex and age at this site. We compared our data with other previous published isotopic data from the Chulmun sites and found that the Ando people had similar isotope values to the southern Chulmun people (Tongsamdong and Daepo), but different isotopic ratios than the western Chulmun people (Daejukri and Konamri). These results indicate that marine foods were the main food resources in the southern coastal regions, but not in the western coastal regions in Chulmun Korea. |
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Keywords: | Prehistoric subsistence Carbon isotopes Nitrogen isotopes Palaeodiet Chulmun (Neolithic) Korea |
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